Manuel Pellegrini warned Manchester City the Premier League is not
finished yet after they moved to the summit with victory over Everton.
A thrilling match finished 3-2 in City's favour,
taking them ahead of Liverpool on goal difference ahead of the Reds'
clash with Crystal Palace on Monday. Third-placed Chelsea, two points
behind, play Norwich on Sunday and will also have the chance to move
ahead.
Both teams will have played a game more than City but Pellegrini told
Sky Sports 1: "The worst thing we must do is think that today we
finished the Premier League.
"We have to play teams (Aston Villa and West Ham) who are not
fighting for anything, they can play without pressure. We must try to
win our last two games at home, then we will see what happens.''
Sergio Aguero's goal and two from Edin Dzeko settled the game at
Goodison, with Everton having opened the scoring through Ross Barkley
and later pulling one back through Romelu Lukaku.
Pellegrini said: "We won and at this moment the most important thing
is to win. Today the pressure was maybe too high to play our best
football. We played well until 3-2, maybe at that moment the team was a
bit nervous.
"We started one goal down and we played good football to recover from
that goal. We managed the game, we scored three and had chances.''
Aguero left the field with an injury but Pellegrini would not be
drawn on the severity of the problem, saying simply: "We'll see
tomorrow.''
Captain Vincent Kompany also urged caution ahead of the finale to the season.
"Ultimately it's two games at home but it doesn't mean anything,'' he
said. "You saw the Sunderland game and how tough it was. Hopefully
we'll just play like we can, we have a strong home record and we have
goals from everywhere on the pitch.''
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